Wartable: Babysitting, the mission

[eternalsquire]

WHO: Kif, Amélie, Pamelia, Samouel.
WHAT: A boy has gone missing, and it's up to Kif and the Healers (a really obscure band, you probably haven't heard of them) to save the day OR DIE TRYING.
WHEN: Haring 2 and for a few days around then
WHERE: The Arling of West Hills
NOTES: Possibly some injuries? They're not actually going to die. Probably.

Dangerously close to the Fallow Mire (and by dangerous we mean sometimes there's a stiff wind that blows a stench into the area that may or may not actually be from the Mire BUT IT SMELLS BAD) lies a plot of land ruled by an increasingly ill Arl Gallagher Wulff, run by his daughter, Izot, and her husband, Lord Niall Packton, who give lip-service approval to the Inquisition while not giving permission to it to cross their lands, or any other form of support.

When Izot's only son goes missing, though, there's an opportunity to change matters around if they can find the boy in time.

Comments

Narratives for question-asking and searching

[eternalsquire]

Taking on missing boots and bag

[eternalsquire]

As everyone involved is human, Kif doesn't really see a point in posing questions to the family itself. They're not going to answer an elf, even if he makes a thing of his position. It doesn't really matter.

His tactic, instead, is to speak with one of the servants who knew the boy. While he doesn't find out much, the servant does note that the boy's boots are gone, as is the boy's satchel. It doesn't have to mean much. The family isn't poor and if they were covering something up, it wouldn't be a strain to dispose of some boots. On the other hand, if the boy had been kidnapped, either less stuff or more stuff would be taken.

In Kif's opinion, this means that, for once, it probably wasn't mages. The boy ran away, or it was the family that did something. If it was the latter, it was the mother. No one who isn't guilty about something would do what rumors say she's doing in regard to her suddenly strengthened faith.

He'll say as much to the others.

[anacardiaceae]

Pamelia is also on team 'talking to these people would be like addressing a brick wall on it's shakiness', being an elf; thus she's also all for questioning the help, as it were, and finding things out around the parents. Might not be the most diplomatic approach, but. Not her fault most humans are racist against her kind, is it?

"We should take a look at his room ourselves. See what's there, and maybe what isn't?"

[eternalsquire]

"Okay." He's willing to do what she suggests. Kif is a natural-born follower, and he'll fall in with whatever seems to be a good suggestion.

"Do you, do you know what should be there?" He heads in the direction the servants had indicated before, looking over at her. "In a human boy's room." In a well-to-do human boy's room, no less.

[anacardiaceae]

"Only an idea, really." She's seen boys' rooms before after all. "But looking won't hurt."

Pamelia reaches forward and squeezes his hand. "At the very least we'll get an idea of what he's like. He's at the ripe age for an adventure; if nothing has been done to him, it may be as simple as that he's gone off to find one."

[eternalsquire]

He gives her a tiny smile before squeezing her hand back. A few minutes later he's opening the door with his free hand and nodding toward the surprisingly tidy room. Or perhaps not that surprising; nobility can afford to have staff.

"Um. This is it. His boots and bag are gone, which probably mean something. I think."

[anacardiaceae]

"Either he took them or someone took them to make it look like he left." Pamelia wishes they knew what was in the bag, but unfortunately...

"There's books." A lot of books, for a boy his age. She goes and opens a wardrobe. "A few things are missing from here, too." She can tell by the empty hanging spaces where no empty space would normally be.

Hysterical mother and a curious book

[el_tybs]

Being one of the humans in the group, Sam was left with talking with the family - the mother to be more precise. He had been hopeful that doing so would have been helpful, but instead the mage found himself mentally being glad that the woman had not registered that he was a mage - it had to be how he dressed and carried a 'sword' instead of a staff - and just nodding his head slowly as the woman talked. More like sobbed. She was insistent that this was the work of mages and their magic, and any other line of questioning ended up with the woman becoming hysterical and falling to her knees in prayer.

When Izot became inconsolable, demanding to be left alone, Sam inquired about checking the boy's room again. The permission was given swiftly, as an after thought really, but at least he no longer had to listen to the mother's rantings.

Later on Sam could be found checking Gareth's room, looking over a couple books that had been left on the boy's desk. One book was tattered with several bookmarks in it's pages - an account of Genitivi's travels if someone asks - and other book about maladies.

[anacardiaceae]

This is Pamelia's second time in the room, but she'd not bothered much with the books before; the title of one of them catches her eyes, however, and she frowns as she approaches the desk.

"What is he doing with this one?"

[el_tybs]

"Hm?" Looking up from where he's flipped to one particular dog-ear marked page, Sam turns to Pamelia then looks back down at the books.

"Which one? The one on maladies or Brother Genitivi? Either one is pretty heavy reading for a kid his age, but it seems like he was dedicated." All the bookmarks and notes proved that.